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M. BAUML CIGARETTE PACKING MACHINE Filed Nov. 50, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet. l

April 24, 1928.

M. BAUML CIGARETTE PACKING MACHINE Patented Apr. 24, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAXIMILIAN BiiUML, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM JAGENBERG- WERKE AKT.-GES., OF DUSSELIJORF, GERMANY.

CIGARETTE-PACKING MACHINE.

Application filed November 30, 1925, Serial No. 72,355, and in Austria December 2, 1924 This invention relates to improvements in cigarette packing machines in which the cigarettes pass from a storage receptacle, the width of which corresponds to the length of the cigarette, into upright compartments and from the latter into the package.

One mode of carrying out the present mvention is illustrated by way of example on the accompanying sheets of drawings 1n which g Fig. 1 is a part-sectional elevation of the machine according to the present invention, the section being taken on line 1-1 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 2 illustrates the machine in planview.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view through the bottom portion of the storage receptacle.

Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional views the sec tions being taken 'on lines 1-'l and 5 5 respectively of Fig. 3.

Figs. (5 and 7 illustrate in sectional elevation and in plan view respectively a collecting receptacle, which feeds the cigarettes, coming from the storage receptacle, to the package.

As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the storage receptacles 2 and 2', which are displaced with respect to one another at an angle of ninety degrees, are secured to the frame 1 ofthe machine by means of arms 3. A shaft at is located in the frame 1 and, by means of bevel-wheels 5 and 6, operates a vertically disposed shaft 7 a transverse arm 8 being secured to the upper end of the latter. The said arm 8 is provided with vertically arranged shafts, on which are mounted rollers 9 and 9, adapted to engage radial slots 10, which are provided on the bottom side of a disc 11. The latter is keyed to a stub-axle 12, arranged in the frame 1. The disc 11 is provided with crossed arms 13, which are arranged parallel in pairs and at their inner faces, facing one another, are furnished with grooves, in which are disposed radially slidable collecting receptacles 14. Each storage receptacle 2 and 2 consists of a hopper 15 and a slightly inclined casing 16, the bottom end of which latter terminates closely above the top end of the collecting receptacle. A saddle-shaped baflle-plate 17 is arranged in the hopper 15 a slight distance above the casing 16. In the illustrated embodiment, the casing 16 is subdivided into five inclined compartments 18 (Fig. 3), which are separated from each other by intermediate spaces 19. Slides 20, which are arranged in two rows and displaced with respect to one another, are disposed in the upper part of the said intermediate spaces 19. At opposite sides the slides are provided with extensions 21 and 21', which extend through slots in the casing-walls and are secured to frames 23 and 24 by means of screws 22, the said frames sliding on guide-bars 25 and 26, which are attached to the casing. Rods 27 and 28 are pivotally attached to the frames 23 and 24 (Figs. 1 and 1), the said rods engaging eccentric discs 29 and 30, which are mounted on a shaft 31. The latter is arranged in the frame 1 and operated by the shaft +1 with the aid of toothed wheels 32 and 33.

ltight through the bottom part of the spaces 12) extend shafts 34, and to one end of the latter are secured cranks 35, whose pins 30 engage the slot 36 of a frame 37, which is arranged at the outer broadside of the frame and is also guided on the bars 25 and 26. The frame 3'? is secured to a bar 38, which by means of a roller all) operates on a cam 39, mounted on the shaft 31. Two levers ll and all. are secured to each shaft 3% and during the rotation of the shaft intermittently pass, through slots of the compartment-walls, into the adjacent compart ments 18.

The collecting receptacles 14., which are adapted to move closely underneath the easings 16, consist of two U-shaped frames 42 and 42, which complete themselves to form a rectangle and slide in dovetailed grooves of the arms 13 and are furnished with ledges 54 on which rest the ends of the cigarettes, the latter being separated by small partitions 56. The adjacent front sides of the frames 12 and 42 are connected with one another by levers 43 and 13', whose common axis of rotation or pivot let is vertically slidable in a slot d5 of the arm 13. The pivots of the levers l3 and 13 are connected by means of tension springs -16. The frame 42 carries a pawl 17, which is subjected to the action of a plate-spring 18 and is furnished with an inclined face, which rests on a bridg ing member 53, connecting the arms 13. A feed-disc 49 is keyed to the stub-axle and is provided with four contacting faces 50 according to the crossed anrangement of the 'Without departing from the spirit of the invention, the construction of the machine may be varied in many ways. For instance the discharge of the collecting receptacles into the packing cases may be carried out not by a free drop or fall of the cigarettes, but by pushing the same out in an axial direction, which however is already known.

1. A cigarette packing machine comprising in combination storage receptacles for the cigarettes, collecting receptacles for a certain number of cigarettes, means for intermittently feeding forward the collecting receptacles underneath the storage receptacles, compartments in the latter separated from one another by intermediate spaces, and means in these spaces for periodically releasing the cigarettes contained in the said compartments for permitting or preventing the passage of the cigarettes into the collecting receptacles.

2. A cigarette packing machine comprising in combination storage receptacles for the cigarettes, collecting receptacles for a certain number of cigarettes, means for intermittently feeding forward the collecting receptacles underneath the storage receptacles, compartments in the latter separated from one another by intermediate spaces, and means in these spaces for periodically releasing the cigarettes contained in the said compartments for permitting or preventing the passage of the cigarettes into the collecting receptacles, and means in the storage receptacles for facilitating the admission of the cigarettes into the compartments.

3. A cigarette packing machine comprising in combination storage receptacles for the cigarettes, collecting receptacles for a certain number of cigarettes, means for intermittently feeding forward the collecting receptacles underneath the storage receptacles, compartments in the latter separated from one another by intermediate spaces, slides in the intermediate spaces, and means for moving the slides up and down.

el. A cigarette packing machine comprising in combination storage receptacles for the cigarettes, collecting receptacles for a certain number of cigarettes, means for intermittently feeding forward the collecting receptacles underneath the storage receptacles, and compartments in the storage receptacles arranged at an inclination whereby to cause oval-shaped cigarettes to assume a predetermined position therein.

5. A cigarette packing machine comprising in combination storage receptacles for the cigarettes, collecting receptacles for a certain number of cigarettes, means for intermittently feeding forward the collecting receptacles underneath the storage receptacles, inclined compartments in the storage receptacles, and compartments in the collecting receptacles arranged at an inclination whereby to cause oval-shaped cigarettes to assume a predetermined position therein and being alined with the compartments in the storage receptacles.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

MAXIMILIAN BAUML. 

